The very first step in acquiring a territory is hoisting a flag. It is that simple. Just get a piece of cloth, color them with your least favored set of rigid colors, and nail your painted piece of cloth to a stake, preferably a long one. Congrats, you have a flag. Now, just get an uninhabited land, island, sea, moon, asteroid, planet, star or galaxy and hoist your flag. More congratulations to you! You’re now an emperor.
If you’re the emperor of a hitherto uninhabited land you won’t go through the pain the colonists went through- the pain of stealing from somebody else, the pain of having to explain the theft away as being for the affected party’s benefit and then the very big pain of having to live with the other pains.
On Emperors: they’re usually smart. Take it from me. Acquiring territory isn’t easy work. It’s the cause for wars- physical, legal, financial and so on. They waged wars and fought battles just because of territory. Sometimes I think they fought wars and waged battles. Why fight over a little corner of the Earth when all of Mars is free? Makes little sense to me. Maintaining territory isn’t easy work as well. Microsoft versus Apple on the former’s use of the icons the latter designed for hardware in software. But guess what? Steve Jobs stood up and so did Apple.
Imitation is more labor than you can afford. You ought to know that. A dormant brain is more expensive to keep than a working one. If you’re excellent at copying you deserve a prize. It means you’re a genius who has only focused his attention on copying. Try using that brain well. Draw a circle; flip a switch; read the billboards. Who says you can’t fly backwards or walk upwards? Forget Hollywood and their flying cars. Think Nollywood and their bicycles that sound like locomotive trains. It’s called Kinging, not just creativity. Call it “emperoring” if you like
Pick a space, wherever in space, that is uniquely yours. Uniqueness is our birthright. Learn to meddle in your space. You’ll find it becomes easier to meddle out of other people’s affairs. Seriously, create your space. Develop your colony. Build your kingdom. It’s not just about gathering subjects. Good emperors don’t make their empires about how many subjects they have. The best emperors know how to serve. Ask the world’s greatest leader ever, and it’s not Alexander the Great. Don’t build a house that will die with you. That’s all!
Don’t mould anybody into yourself. You’re too much trouble for the world, as it were. Don’t also decide to be a guinea rat, a tool for experiments. Yes, the world needs you. Yes too, the world needs only one of you. Hoist your flag in your territory. Keep it flying!
If you’re the emperor of a hitherto uninhabited land you won’t go through the pain the colonists went through- the pain of stealing from somebody else, the pain of having to explain the theft away as being for the affected party’s benefit and then the very big pain of having to live with the other pains.
On Emperors: they’re usually smart. Take it from me. Acquiring territory isn’t easy work. It’s the cause for wars- physical, legal, financial and so on. They waged wars and fought battles just because of territory. Sometimes I think they fought wars and waged battles. Why fight over a little corner of the Earth when all of Mars is free? Makes little sense to me. Maintaining territory isn’t easy work as well. Microsoft versus Apple on the former’s use of the icons the latter designed for hardware in software. But guess what? Steve Jobs stood up and so did Apple.
Imitation is more labor than you can afford. You ought to know that. A dormant brain is more expensive to keep than a working one. If you’re excellent at copying you deserve a prize. It means you’re a genius who has only focused his attention on copying. Try using that brain well. Draw a circle; flip a switch; read the billboards. Who says you can’t fly backwards or walk upwards? Forget Hollywood and their flying cars. Think Nollywood and their bicycles that sound like locomotive trains. It’s called Kinging, not just creativity. Call it “emperoring” if you like
Pick a space, wherever in space, that is uniquely yours. Uniqueness is our birthright. Learn to meddle in your space. You’ll find it becomes easier to meddle out of other people’s affairs. Seriously, create your space. Develop your colony. Build your kingdom. It’s not just about gathering subjects. Good emperors don’t make their empires about how many subjects they have. The best emperors know how to serve. Ask the world’s greatest leader ever, and it’s not Alexander the Great. Don’t build a house that will die with you. That’s all!
Don’t mould anybody into yourself. You’re too much trouble for the world, as it were. Don’t also decide to be a guinea rat, a tool for experiments. Yes, the world needs you. Yes too, the world needs only one of you. Hoist your flag in your territory. Keep it flying!
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